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Roots & Culture: Cultural Politics in the Making of Black Britain

Roots & Culture: Cultural Politics in the Making of Black Britain

Chambers, Eddie

Hardcover

Series: International Library of Cultural Studies

Art HistoryGeneral SociologyBritish History

ISBN10: 1784536164
ISBN13: 9781784536169
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: Jan 12 2017
Pages: 304
Weight: 1.10
Height: 1.10 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.60
Language: English
How did a distinct and powerful Black British identity emerge? In the 1950s, when many Caribbean migrants came to Britain, there was no such recognised entity as Black Britain. Yet by the 1980s, the cultural landscape had radically changed, and a remarkable array of creative practices such as theatre, poetry, literature, music and the visual arts gave voice to striking new articulations of Black-British identity. This new book chronicles the extraordinary blend of social, political and cultural influences from the mid-1950s to late 1970s that gave rise to new heights of Black-British artistic expression in the 1980s. Eddie Chambers relates how and why during these decades West Indians became Afro-Caribbeans, and how in turn Afro-Caribbeans became Black-British - and the centrality of the arts to this important narrative. The British Empire, migration, Rastafari, the Anti-Apartheid struggle, reggae music, dub poetry, the ascendance of the West Indies cricket team and the coming of Margaret Thatcher - all of these factors, and others, have had a part to play in the compelling story of how the African Diaspora transformed itself to give rise to Black Britain.

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